Hermann Hesse
Novelist, Poet
"Every experience has its element of magic."
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Elements
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Jack Kerouac
Novelist, Poet
"It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on."
Franz Kafka
Writer
"Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so."
Brian Tracy
Author, Speaker
"Truthfulness is the main element of character."
Che Guevara
Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
"The state sometimes makes mistakes. When one of these mistakes occurs, one notes a decline in collective enthusiasm due to the effect of a quantitative diminution in each of the elements that make up the mass. Work is paralyzed until it is reduced to an insignificant level. It is time to make a correction."
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"Each celestial body, in fact each and every atom, produces a particular sound on account of its movement, its rhythm or vibration. All these sounds and vibrations form a universal harmony in which each element, while having it’s own function and character, contributes to the whole."
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"One must find out for oneself, and make sure beyond doubt, 'who' one is, 'what' one is, 'why' one is... Being thus conscious of the proper course to pursue, the next thing is to understand the conditions necessary to following it out. After that, one must eliminate from oneself every element alien or hostile to success, and develop those parts of oneself which are specially needed to control the aforesaid conditions."
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"I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it."
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"Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly."
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"Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements."
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"Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders elements which one would have supposed immutable, and composes a new pattern."
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"Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, konnecting people."
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"The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do; and as the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which can wait patiently, without asking too many questions."
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"Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature."
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"There is no element of genius without some form of madness."
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"Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness."
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"I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith."
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"America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture."
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"I knew that however bad the Republican party was, the Democratic party was much worse. The elements of which the Republican party was composed gave better ground for the ultimate hope of the success of the colored mans cause than those of the Democratic party."
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"To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced."
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"For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element."
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"Music is a defining element of character."
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"It's hard to say goodbye to the streets. It's all how you do it. You can pass by and say, 'What's happening?' and keep it moving, but it's a certain element that'll never be able to roll with you once you get to this level, because that's the separation of it all."
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"A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes."
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"But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value."
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